Steady-state somatosensory evoked potentials: Suitable brain signals for brain-computer interfaces?

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 30-37

  Müller Putz, Gernot R ^a,c   Scherer, Reinhold ^a   Neuper, Christa ^b,d   Pfurtscheller, Gert ^a,b,c,e  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c IEEE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^e Laboratory of Brain Computer Interfaces   (Austria)

Author keywords

Brain computer interface (BCI); Electroencephalogram (EEG); Steady state somatosensory evoked potential (SSSEP)

Indexed keywords

BRAIN-COMPUTER INTERFACE (BCI); ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM (EEG); STEADY-STATE SOMATOSENSORY EVOKED POTENTIAL (SSSEP);

BRAIN; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; INTERFACES (COMPUTER); SENSORS; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS;

BIOELECTRIC POTENTIALS;

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDEX FINGER; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOMATOSENSORY SYSTEM; STEADY STATE; TACTILE STIMULATION; TRAINING; TRANSDUCER;

ADULT; BIOFEEDBACK (PSYCHOLOGY); BRAIN; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, SOMATOSENSORY; FEMALE; FINGERS; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 33644985847     PISSN: 15344320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNSRE.2005.863842     Document Type: Article

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